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

My hours are peaceful centuries.

A breath of will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of Right and Necessity. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the worlds into order and orbit.

The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.

It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have wrought for the negro a benefit as sudden as when a thermometer is brought out of the shade into the sun. It has given him eyes and ears.

Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.