An artist, it is true, may create his own world, but he is a puny and insignificant subject, if it contains nothing save his own creations...Narrator
In the spiritual world, the old physician and the minister—were greater than he... But here, in the realm of Matter, and in the element of Mortal Mind, he had hoped to be strongest...Owen Warland
How can a woman open her heart to a man who, instead of contemplating her with his human eyes, only regards her as Nature’s imperfect handiwork?Narrator
The artists had contrived a butterfly, which bore resemblance to none to be found in the waking world...Narrator
The characteristics of the butterfly lurked among the old man’s wrinkles.Narrator
I would rather be a child and believing that the flowers, the trees, the birds, the sunlight, the stars, are what they seem to be—than be a man, and quibble about the material and spiritual essence.Robert Danforth
For a man who, as once before, was on the point of wedding a fair young girl, to be busying himself with such mechanical nonsense as this—I am ashamed of you!Peter Hovenden
She could see her husband’s figure; he was leaning over the object of his toil, and his lamp threw its concentrated luster upon it, vividly displaying, and isolating too, his slight, but active form.Narrator
Our two friends, as they rowed their boat round the loom of the ship, were returning homeward...Narrator
Any man who devotes himself earnestly to the invention of a mechanical toy... is doing God’s service just as truly as if he sought to make a window of colored glass, or build a stately cathedralOwen Warland