In nature, all is useful, all is beautiful. It is therefore beautiful, because it is alive, moving, reproductive; it is thereforeuseful, because it is symmetrical and fair. Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms.

Let him be great, and love shall follow him.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.