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.

With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.

Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means

The order of things consents to virtue.

Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread.

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.