Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.

The first lesson of history is that evil is good.

The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.