In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.

In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.