He is a good man who can receive a gift well.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.

No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.