I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.

Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.

The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle

He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves