Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.

The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.

But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.

Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.

The visible heavens and earth sympathize with Jesus.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.