A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.

Accuracy is essential to beauty.

The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.

Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.

Self trust is the essence of heroism.

Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.