Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised andshocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.