As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is a graceful gesture of recognition or waving of the body toward it.

The country is an archipelago of lakes,--the lake-country of New England.

Lose the world, get lost in it, and find your soul.

Be it life or death, we crave only reality.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right.

Who cares what a man's style is, so it is intelligible,--as intelligible as his thought. Literally and really, the style is no more than the stylus, the pen he writes with; and it is not worth scraping and polishing, and gilding, unless it will write his thoughts the better for it. It is something for use, and not to look at. The question for us is, not whether Pope had a fine style, wrote with a peacock's feather, but whether he uttered useful thoughts.