There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.

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

The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question naturally arises: How is it, then, that no work proceeds from them, bearing any stamp of authenticity and permanence; of worth for more than one day?