Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred..

The effect of the indulgence of human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration..

We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate..

The spirit only can teach. Not any profane man, not any sensual, not any liar, not any slave can teach, but only he can give, whohas; he only can cre….

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and s….

The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to th….

The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise….

Always scorn appearances and you always may..

But to most of us society shows not its face and eye, but its side and back. To stand in true relations with men in a false age isworth a fit of insa….

Astrology is astronomy brought down to Earth and applied toward the affairs of men..

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub..

The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames..

The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine..

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal….

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality..

The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind..

When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when th….

A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched..

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless an….

Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep..

Ever fresh the broad creation, A divine improvisation, From the heart of God proceeds, A single will, a million deeds..