I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.

Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

The field cannot be seen from within the field.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends.

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.