We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

For splendor, there must somewhere be rigid economy. That the head of the house may go brave, the members must be plainly clad, and the town must save that the State may spend.

Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

Ten percent of people can think, another ten percent of people think that they think, and eighty percent of people would rather die than be made to think.

All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.