The street is full of humiliations to the proud.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.

The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.

The crime which bankrupts men and nations is that of turning aside from one's main purpose to serve a job here and there.

It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.