Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.

We believe that the possibility of the future far exceeds the accomplishment of the past. We review the past with the common sense, but we anticipate the future with transcendental senses. In our sanest moments we find ourselves naturally expecting or prepared for far greater changes than any which we have experienced within the period of distinct memory, only to be paralleled by experiences which are forgotten.

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No matter how valuable law may be to protect your property, even to keep soul and body together, if it do not keep you and humanity together.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.