The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

I accept the universe!

Truth is the first of jewels.

The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

A great work of Art demands a great thought or a thought of beauty adequately expressed. - Neither in Art nor Literature more than in Life can an ordinary thought be made interesting because well-dressed.