A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

Accuracy is essential to beauty.

I am so much a Unitarian as this: that I believe the human mind can admit but one God, and that every effort to pay religious homage to more than one being goes to take away all right ideas.

Thought dissolves the material universe by carrying the mind up into a sphere where all is plastic.