Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.

The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.

It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal’s rhythm of rest and activity.