You cannot make a cheap palace.
Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.
We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.
A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.
We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought forthe morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own.