There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.

To believe in luck ... is skepticism.

I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend.