Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting again.

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

It all begins when the soul would have its way with you.

There is one mind common to all individual men

Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide.

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.