There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

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

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.