The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not . . . The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in beholders.

America is another name for opportunity.

American mind a wilderness of opportunities.

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

The sky is the ultimate art gallery just above us.