The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.

Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.