Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation--the realization of an idea by an act of the will.

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

I could honor Carmen Electra. I think she's beautiful.

Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

Commerce has made all winds her mistress.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.