Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.

It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as then need is.

We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate.

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.