Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.

A few years ago, the liberal churches complained that the Calvinistic church denied to them the name of Christian. I think the complaint was confession; a religious church would not complain.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

The world is filled with the proverbs and acts and winkings of a base prudence, which is a devotion to matter, as if we possessedno other faculties than the palate, the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,--Will it bake bread?

American mind a wilderness of opportunities.