There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.

The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

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?

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.