Strange is this alien despotism of Sleep which takes two persons lying in each other's arms & separates them leagues, continents,asunder.

You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.

I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste, that the fashions follow a law of gradation, and are never arbitrary. The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode; and a cultivated eye is prepared for and predicts the new fashion.

I admire answers to which no answers can be made.

"Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call you brother."

I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.