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.

it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.

Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in the river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.

They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, etc., are in a lower dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.