Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.
Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.
The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.
The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.
The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.
It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.