Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.

Imitation cannot go above its model.

The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree.

If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.

Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong