I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven to earth, of matter to mind, of the part to the whole, is our guide. As there is a science of stars, called astronomy; and science of quantities, called mathematics; a science of qualities, called chemistry; so there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.

Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.