Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing.

'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men.

The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.

The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.