The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Genius appeals to the future.
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.
Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.
By going one step further back in thought, discordant opinions are reconciled by being seen to be two extremes of one principle, and we can never go so far back as to preclude a still higher vision.