Shakespeare is one of the best means of culture the world possesses. Whoever is at home in his pages is at home everywhere.
Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.
The smiles of infants are said to be the first fruits of human reason.
Imagination is the organ through which the soul within us recognizes a soul without us; the spiritual eye by which the mind perceives and converses with the spiritualities of nature under her material forms; which tends to exalt even the senses into soul by discerning a soul in the objects of sense.