So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man