The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.

America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.

All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

Man carries the world in his head, the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought. Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain, therefore he is the prophet and discoverer of her secrets. Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand, and uses it to embody any caprice of thought that is uppermost in his mind. The remotest spaces of nature are visited, and the farthest sundered things are brought together, by subtle spiritual connection. We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.