How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

Great believers are always reckoned infidels, impracticable, fantastic, atheistic, and really men of no account. The spiritualist finds himself driven to express his faith by a series of skepticisms.

Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance.

Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

The highest Beauty should be plain set.