Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

America means opportunity, freedom, power.

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.

There is no history; only biography.

The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.