Every man is eloquent once in his life.

The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them as signs. He knows why the plain, or meadow of space, was strown with these flowers we call suns, and moons, and stars; why the deep is adorned with animals, with men, and gods; for, in every word he speaks he rides on them as the horses of thought.

Wherever there is power there is age.

The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

We can only obey our own polarity.

Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.