Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.

We are the prisoners of ideas. They catch us up for moments into their heaven, and so fully engage us, that we take no thought forthe morrow, gaze like children, without an effort to make them our own.

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.