The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other.

We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.

Treat your friend as a spectacle.

The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who renounceshimself, comes to himself.

A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single.

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.