Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

Not one man, in the million, shall I say? no, not in the hundred million, can rise above the belief that woman was made for man.

I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees are in their festive hues. I am not festive, though contented. When obliged to give myself to the prose of life, as I am on this occasion of being established in a new home I like to do the thing, wholly and quite, - to weave my web for the day solely from the grey yarn.

The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.

You see how wide the gulf that separates me from the Christian church.

Who does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by engaging in gardening, building, or the lowest department of art? Here is something that is not routine--something that draws forth life towards the infinite.

But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.