A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.

For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creepinto a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution.