The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

Language is fossil Poetry.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.

What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

But do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.