Every artist was first an amateur.
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
