Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.

The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.