Summoned in such consoling tones and invited with such kindness, like earthly Mercuries, we shall fly on winged feet to embrace that most...

Letter VI HAVE I gone too far in this portraiture of our times? I do not anticipate this stricture, but rather another—that I have...

Letter I BY your permission I lay before you, in a series of letters, the results of my researches upon beauty and art. I am keenly...

But how can anyone judge or love what he does not know? Moses loved the God whom he had seen and as judge of his people he administered...

Part Four: Time and Eternity X I DIED for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an...

Who then will not look with awe upon this our chameleon, or who, at least, will look with greater admiration on any other being? This...

Language, color, form, and religious and civil habits of action, are all the instruments and materials of poetry; they may be called...

Most esteemed Fathers, I have read in the ancient writings of the Arabians that Abdala the Saracen on being asked what, on this stage, so...

ACCORDING to one mode of regarding those two classes of mental action, which are called reason and imagination, the former may be...

It is hard to explain how alchemy, the philosopher’s stone, and the spiritual aspects of our human characteristics reflect themselves...