In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.

The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.