We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.
The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.
There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.
The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.