Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity

Power is in nature the essential measure of right.

Almost all people descend to meet. All association must be a compromise, and, what is worst, the very flower and aroma of the flower of each of the beautiful natures disappears as they approach each other.

Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.