The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul.

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Every artist was first an amateur.