It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone.

I do not wish to please him; I wish that he should wish to please me.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Nobody is glad in the gladness of another, and our system is one of war, of an injurious superiority. Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first. It is our system; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies, and hatreds of his competitors.

As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

No hope so bright but is the beginning of its own fulfilment.