Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.

The maxim of courts is that manner is power.

All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.

Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.

Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.

Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.