Miracle comes to the miraculous, not to the arithmetician.

Wherever there is power there is age.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

In every landscape, the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock aswell as from the top of the Alleghanies. The stars at night stoop down over the brownest, homeliest common, with all the spiritual magnificence which they shed on the Campagna, or on the marble deserts of Egypt.

The dice of God are always loaded.

And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.