Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.

Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

If we tire of the saints, Shakspeare is our city of refuge.

An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.