These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth dreams, and prays, and paints today, but shuns the ridicule of saying aloud, shall presently be the resolutions of public bodies, then shall be carried as grievance and bill of rights through conflict and war, and then shall be triumphant law and establishment for a hundred years, until it gives place, in turn, to new prayers and pictures.

Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and ears open. If not, she will not be slow in undeceiving us, when we prefer our own way to hers.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

Tart, cathartic virtue.

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.