But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?

Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation.

The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who could ever clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: 't is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.

A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.

Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.

The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.