The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.

A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

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.

Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.