Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering aid.

The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward: the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his; - cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame.

A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.