The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?

The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.

Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.

To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.

There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.

He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.

Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality; and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.