Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.

As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.

Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.