We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.

The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.