You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude.

There the great Planter plants Of fruitful worlds the grain, And with a million spells enchants The souls that walk in pain.

What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.

Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.