A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.

Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

Insist on your life, never imitate... do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world, through a few brains. The arts and institutions of men are created out of thought. The powers that make the capitalist are metaphysical, the force of method and force of will makes trade, and builds towns.

A man must be in sympathy with society around him, or else, not wish to be in sympathy with it. If neither of these two, he must be wretched.