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.

To Be is to live with God.

Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

Steam was till the other day the devil which we dreaded. Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should lift pot and roof and carry the house away.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.