Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.

In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock aswell as from the top of the Alleghanies. The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common, with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna, or on the marble deserts of Egypt.

Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.

An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.

The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it