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

American mind a wilderness of opportunities.

When the gods come among men, they are not known.

There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.

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

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has, but he whose eyes can integrate all the parts,--that is, the poet.