Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

We never touch but at points.

Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.

Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.

Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.