The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.

Ah me! the world is full of meetings such as this,--a thrill, a voiceless challenge and reply, and sudden partings after!

Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.

Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.