The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.

The eye is the best of artists.

Accept your genius and say what you think.

There is a certain wisdom of humanity which is common to the greatest men with the lowest, and which our ordinary education oftenlabors to silence and obstruct.

And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.