Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.

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

Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence andgood will at the heart of all things, and even higher and yet higher leadings. These are my engagements; how can your law further or hinder me in what I shall do to men?

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.