Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.

If we could have any security against moods! If the profoundest prophet could be holden to his words, and the hearer who is readyto sell all and join the crusade, could have any certificate that to-morrow his prophet shall not unsay his testimony!

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.