Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the political status of an individual. It raises a rival royalty in a monarchy. 'Tis king against king. It is ever a romance of history in all dynasties--the co-presence of the revolutionary force in intellect. It creates a personal independence which the monarch cannot look down, and to which he must often succumb.

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

Genius Borrows nobly.

If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.