The health of the eye demands a horizon.

It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

You can take better care of your secret than another can.

Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is bent on expression. The tell-tale body is all tongues. Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.

You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

If, at any time, it comes into my head, that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone.