History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and talk down to the young. Let them then become organs of the Holy Ghost; let them be lovers; let them behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted, their wrinkles smoothed, they are perfumed again with hope and power.

New York is a sucked orange.