“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”

“Simplicity is the glory of expression.”

“Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.”

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”

“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”

“I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name....”

“This is the female form, vapor, A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot, It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction, I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor, all falls aside but myself and it, Books, art, religion, time, the visible and solid earth, and what was expected of heavaen or fear'd of hell, are now consumed, Mad filament, ungovernable shoots play out of it, the response likewise ungovernable...”