Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency.

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.

We commonly say that the rich man can speak the truth, can afford honesty, can afford independence of opinion and action;--and that is the theory of nobility. But it is the rich man in a true sense, that is to say, not the man of large income and large expenditure, but solely the man whose outlay is less than his income and is steadily kept so.

Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

I see my trees repair their boughs.