When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

Eyes...They speak all languages.

Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore he is the prophet and discoverer of her secrets. Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.

A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.