Courage is temperamental, scientific, ideal.

Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings.

The instinct of the people is right.

Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Delicious is a just and firm encounter of two in a thought, in a feeling.

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.