Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.