Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of the social frame; the other to postpone all things to the man himself.

All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.

We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.