Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each ofthese works an act of invention, an intellectual step, or short series of steps taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.

Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?

The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.