We can only obey our own polarity..

To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea, by voyaging; to visit the mountains….

Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore..

Romeo, of dead, should be cut up into little stars to make the heavens fine. Life, with this pair, has no other aim, asks no more,than Juliet,--than ….

How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better wo….

Instead of feeling a poverty when we encounter a great man, let us treat the new comer like a travelling geologist, who passes through our estate, an….

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for all its pri….

Hither rolls the storm of heat; I feel its finer billows beat Like a sea which me infolds; Heat with viewless fingers moulds, Swells, and mellows, an….

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the….

For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose..

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him..

A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world..

Accuracy is essential to beauty..

Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men..

The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in disco….

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things….

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs..

After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death..

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them..

Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philan….

But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendo….