When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.

History is the new poetry.

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

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

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.