The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.

God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.

The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward: the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his; - cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame.

I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.