It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.

A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

Calmness is always godlike.

Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.

And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world as hypothetical, and withal our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization?

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.