"A Letter always feels to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend."

"The only Port I ever knew Is that which leads to Thee – The only Land I ever saw Is in Thy Memory –"

"The way to know a Rose is to smell it."

"The Sea is a good Landlady – She has a pleasant way – Her Rooms are many – and her Rent Is often – but a Day –"

"Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted."