The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.
The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.
The last change in our point of view gives the whole world a pictorial air.
Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.
Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.
The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.