For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

Never lose an opportunity to see anything that is beautiful. It is God's handwriting a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

An orchard, good tillage, good grounds, seem a fixture, like a gold mine, or a river, to a citizen; but to a large farmer, not much more fixed than the state of the crop.

Dare to love God without mediator or veil.

We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.