These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.

Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.

Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.

Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear.

Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.