To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

I accept the universe!

Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked-for beauty, make flowers bloom even on the brow of the precipice, and, when nothing better can be had, can turn the very substance of rock itself into moss and lichens. This faculty is uncomparingly the most important for the vivid and attractive exhibition of truth to the minds of men.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.