The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts.

There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!

The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.

A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.

The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.