I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.

The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

When the Master of the universe has points to carry in his government he impresses his will in the structure of minds.

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

Revolutions go not backward.