Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.

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

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.