Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

The course of everything goes to teach us faith.

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insanity, is it not?