The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow free with his name, and find it ornamental now, but in his own day his friends were few.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected.

What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

The exceptional life depends not on working harder, but on different, even opposite, actions from habit and the crowd.

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.