When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.

Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration. Presently we return to the sight of another that globes itself into a whole as did the first, for example, a beautiful garden; and nothing seems worth doing in life but laying out a garden.