England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?

The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

Silence is a solvent that destroys personality, and gives us leave to be great and universal.

The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

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.