What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry; a high discourse, the voice of the speaker seems to breathe as much from the landscape as from his own breast; it is Nature communing with the seer.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.

A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardonpride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.