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.

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

I think all men know better than they do; know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they darenot trust their presentiments.

Who loses a day loses life.

I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

The inmost in due time becomes the outmost.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.