The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.

Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.

Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.