Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.

The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.

The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty is solved by redemption of the soul.

The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.

The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.