It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision..

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret vir….

He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand..

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other..

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome..

There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as ….

When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race..

You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house..

Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see no reason why I should not have the same t….

We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul..

Englands genius filled all measureOf heart and soul, of strength and pleasure,Gave to the mind its emperor,And life was larger than before:Nor sequen….

We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not, among the most religious and instru….

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out o….

He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard..

No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him..

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else..

We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us..

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem..

Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that; be it a sonnet….

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity..

The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honore….