Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each of whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each other performs his.

The beautiful is never plentiful.

Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.

The time will come when the evil forms we have known can no more be organized. Man's culture can spare nothing, wants all material. He is to convert all impediments into instruments, all enemies into power.

The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.