Let us answer a book of ink with a book of flesh and blood.

The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

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.

Character repudiates intellect, yet excites it; and character passes into thought, is published so, and then is ashamed before newflashes of moral worth.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.