We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

When a happy person comes into the room, it is as if another candle has been lit.

All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.

We read often with as much talent as we write.

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.