The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

Do not craze yourself with thinking, but go about your business anywhere.

The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.

Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.

We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.

As the farmer casts into the ground the finest ears of his grain, the time will come when we too shall hold nothing back, but shall eagerly convert more than we now possess into means and powers, when we shall be willing to sow the sun and the moon for seeds.