There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.

A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

Labor is God's education.

Only poetry inspires poetry.

Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.

Will is the measure of power. To a great genius there must be a great will. If the thought is not a lamp to the will, does not proceed to an act, the wise are imbecile. He alone is strong and happy who has a will. The rest are herds. He uses; they are used. He is of the Maker; they are of the Made. Will is always miraculous, being the presence of God to men. When it appears in a man he is a hero, and all metaphysics are at fault.