Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.

History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.

Out of sleeping a waking, Out of waking a sleep.

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber.

Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.