Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy..

Art is evidence of our most creative moment..

I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom..

The masters painted for joy, and knew not that virtue had gone out of them. They could not paint the like in cold blood. The masters of English lyric….

Every word we speak is million-faced or convertible to an indefinite number of applications. If it were not so we could read no book. Your remark wou….

In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views..

Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray..

I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way..

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong..

But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand..

Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his brai….

Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate p….

But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers,….

The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?.

Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward..

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world..

Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is of n….

Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough..

All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desir….

Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing..

Can rules or tutors educate The semigod whom we await? He must be musical, Tremulous, impressional, Alive to gentle influence Of landscape and of sky….