Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.
The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.
Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.
I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.
Our prayers are prophets.
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possible poems and histories.