Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals; - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls.

We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.

Railroad iron is a magician's rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.

Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right.

The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.