A strenuous soul hates cheap success.

Whilst we want cities as the centres where the best things are found, cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality.

All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, and strong with their strength.

Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.