All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

As unity demanded for its expression what at first might have seemed its opposite--variety; so repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite--energy. It is the most unfailing test of beauty; nothing can be ignoble that possesses it, nothing right that has it not.

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.

You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.

See! This our fathers did for us.