It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer, indicate ….

There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps o….

To be a good traveler argues one no ordinary philosopher. A sweet landscape must sometimes be allowed to atone for an indifferent supper, and an inte….

There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess..

A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created..

To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully unders….

Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous..

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul..

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief..

There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support, as being the surest passport to….

If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or arti….

Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, i….

The man who becomes a critic by trade ceases, in reality, to be one at all..

The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a….

Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevai….

National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius..

As the falcon launched trustingly heavenward is lost to view, the course of the higher poetry often soars beyond the ken of the multitude; and, as th….

To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful..

Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves….

The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly. It is t….

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth..