Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.