The sweet air coming into your house on a fine day, from water etched with waves as formal as the scales on a fish.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.

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

Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?

Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it.

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.