Art is not to be found by touring to Egypt, China, or Peru; if you cannot find it at your own door, you will never find it.

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

The field cannot be seen from within the field.

We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing, at the end of one use, is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures.

God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each ofthese works an act of invention, an intellectual step, or short series of steps taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.