All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.

The public values the invention more than the inventor does. The inventor knows there is much more and better where this came from.

And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

My hours are peaceful centuries.

The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.

A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.

Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty breaks in everywhere.