Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.

The world is his who has money to go over it.

I am old, yet I look at wise men and see that I am very young. I look over those stars yonder, and into the myriads of the aspirant and ordered souls, and see I am a stranger and a youth and have yet my spurs to win. Too ridiculous are these airs of age.

Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.