Frankness invites frankness..

The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be ….

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form..

There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an edition of his works; ….

Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with project….

Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know..

It's a luxury to be understood..

I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announce….

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?.

Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first..

Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplat….

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects..

A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet..

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. A man who is not happy in company, cannot find any word in his memory that wil….

I cannot often enough say, that a man is only a relative and representative nature. Each is a hint of the truth, but far enough from being that truth….

Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, express character..

Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suff….

For this present, hard Is the fortune of the bard, Born out of time; All his accomplishment, From Nature's utmost treasure spent, Booteth not him..

The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God..

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty..

Whenever a mind is simple and receives an old wisdom, old things pass away,--means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now, and absorbs past and….