If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.

Our best thoughts come from others.

In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class, by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say.

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.