Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.
Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.
The ages live in history through their anachronisms.
It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.