it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

Of Nature itself upon the soul; the sunrise, the haze of autumn, the winter starlight seem interlocutors; the prevailing sense is that of an exposition in poetry; a high discourse, the voice of the speaker seems to breathe as much from the landscape as from his own breast; it is Nature communing with the seer.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes.

Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

The affirmative of affirmatives... is love.