If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if he has a headache.

The best picture makes us say, I am a painter also.

We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.

Imitation cannot go above its model.

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose ... We distinguish the announcements of the soul, its manifestations of its own nature, by the term Revelation. These are always attended by the emotion of the sublime. For this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind. It is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life. Every distinct apprehension of this central commandment agitates men with awe and delight.

The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist