The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood, and the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire, and enlarge us.

Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

The whole value of the dime is in knowing what to do with it.

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

All science is transcendental or else passes away.