Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at whatis inevitably doing around us, I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen, the sanative and Americanizing influence, which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.

Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?