Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in each ofthese works an act of invention, an intellectual step, or short series of steps taken; that act or step is the spiritual act; all the rest is mere repetition of the same a thousand times.

Good criticism is very rare and always precious.

A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.

He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

We must learn the language of facts. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.