Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyph to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life before he apprehends it as truth.

Women see through Claude Lorraines.

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.

As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?