Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.

The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment--is not half enough taken note of by us, and is to me a very sorrowful matter. And yet, if we try to obtain perpetual change, change itself will become monotonous.

Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.