Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.

A great man will find a great subject, or which is the same thing, make any subject great.

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

Moller, in his Essay on Architecture, taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful, though beauty had not been intended. I find the like unity in human structures rather virulent and pervasive.

An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.