Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.

Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.

It is defeat which educates us.

Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces, which expose the whole movement.

All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.

Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go.

Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time.