We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.

You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.

All natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence.

In good writing, words become one with things.

Great men are sincere.

A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single.

Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.