Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws.

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

Dreams have a poetic integrity and truth. This limbo and dust-hole of thought is presided over by a certain reason, too.

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

Build therefore your own world.

'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not stop where our eyes lose them, but push the same geometry and chemistry up into the invisible plane of social and rational life, so that, look where we will, in a boy's game, or in the strifes of races, a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.