The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.

Song is the heroics of speech.

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.

The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.

We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat to cast into the Earth's bosom; your wheat may be mixed with chaff, chopped straw, barn-sweepings, dust and all imaginable rubbish; no matter: you cast it into the kind just Earth; she grows the wheat, - the whole rubbish she silently absorbs, shrouds it in, says nothing of the rubbish.