Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.

The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour.

Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.