The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.