We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

False fancy brings real misery.

Weep, for the light is dead.

Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.

You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.