People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

Neither is life long enough for friendship. That is a serious and majestic affair.

The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.

Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.

We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them