We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.

Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.

The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone.

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.