Nature is saturated with Deity.

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.

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.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.