Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. This surely implies, as its chief condition, not any given external rank or situation, but a finely-gifted mind, purified into harmony with itself, into keenness and justness of vision; above all, kindled into love and generous admiration.

Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of all things a man does.

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!