Insist upon yourself. Be original.

Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.

The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder. The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will. It is the bodily symbol of identity with nature. We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes will not lie, but make a faithful confession what inhabitant is there.

Let us not forget the genial miraculous force we have known to proceed from a book.

An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.