There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.

My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard."

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.