The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

Whoever has had the experience of the moral sentiment cannot choose but believe in unlimited power. Each pulse from that heart isan oath from the Most High. I know not what the word sublime means, if it be not the intimations, in this infant, of a terrific force.

The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.

Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.

There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.