Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.
The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.
A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.
Rhodora! If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.