Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

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