Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.

A fundamental mistake to call vehemence and rigidity strength! A man is not strong who takes convulsion-fits; though six men cannot hold him then. He that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering, he is the strong man . . . A man who cannot hold his peace, till the time come for speaking and acting, is no right man.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.

We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.