Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through humanity, into the spiritual and necessary sphere, where it plays a part as indestructible as any other.

The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson