Self trust is the essence of heroism.

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.

An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.

The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.