There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

There is to the poetical sense a ravishing prophecy and winsome intimation in flowers that now and then, from the influence of mood of circumstance, reasserts itself like the reminiscence of childhood, or the spell of love.

Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is furnished, and the imagination does the rest.

A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment.