Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

Earth laughs in flowers.

Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts.

A believer, a mind whose faith is consciousness, is never disturbed because other persons do not yet see the fact which he sees.

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.