Real action is in silent moments.

Nothing is dead: men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals and mournful obituaries, and there they stand looking out ofthe window, sound and well, in some new and strange disguise.

It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it comes a Latin grammar, and one of those tow-head boys has written a hymn on Sunday. Now let colleges, now let senates take heed! for here is one who, opening these fine tastes on the basis of the pioneer's iron constitution, will gather all their laurels in his strong hands.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision.