I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each ofthese works an act of invention, an intellectual step, or short series of steps taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.

We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.

You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

New York is a sucked orange.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?