"Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free."
"Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up"
"Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul"
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased."
"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."