It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.

We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to woman as freely as to man.

It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.