When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.

As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.