Genius appeals to the future.

You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning in your own.

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose ... We distinguish the announcements of the soul, its manifestations of its own nature, by the term Revelation. These are always attended by the emotion of the sublime. For this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind. It is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life. Every distinct apprehension of this central commandment agitates men with awe and delight.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

Nature is a tropical swamp in sunshine, on whose purlieus we hear the song of summer birds, and see prismatic dewdrops, - but her interiors are terrific, full of hydras and crocodiles.