Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.

I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances of their education,--what furthered, what hindered, what in any way modified it.

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

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.

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

Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.

It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.