Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.

Let the realist not mind appearances. Let him delegate to others the costly courtesies and decorations of social life. The virtuesare economists, but some of the vices are also. Thus, next to humility, I have noticed that pride is a pretty good husband. A good pride is, as I reckon it, worth from five hundred to fifteen hundred a year.

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

In good company, the individuals merge their egotism into a social soul exactly co-extensive with the several consciousnesses there present.

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true.