When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race; and a literal, slavish following of precedents, as by a justice of the peace, is not for those who at this hour lead the AMERICAN CIVILIZATION.