Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

It is the dissenter, the theorist, the aspirant, who is quitting this ancient domain to embark on seas of adventure, who engages our interest. Omitting then for the present all notice of the stationary class, we shall find that the movement party divides itself into two classes, the actors, and the students.

The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

Power is the first good.

The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.