Alas! this is the crying sin of the age, this want of faith in the prevalence of a man. Nothing can be effected but by one man. Hewho wants help wants everything. True, this is the condition of our weakness, but it can never be the means of our recovery. We must first succeed alone, that we may enjoy our success together.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates a rottenness at the foundation of our community.

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,--mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.