The Condition Of The Most Passionate Enthusiast

We Were Wise Indeed, Could We Discern Truly The Signs Of Our Own Time; And By Knowledge Of Its Wants And Advantages, Wisely Adjust Our Own Position In It. Let Us, Instead Of Gazing Idly Into The Obscure Distance, Look Calmly Around Us, For A Little, On The Perplexed Scene Where We Stand. Perhaps, On A More Serious Inspection, Something Of Its Perplexity Will Disappear, Some Of Its Distinctive Characters And Deeper Tendencies More Clearly Reveal Themselves; Whereby Our Own Relations To It, Our Own True Aims And Endeavors In It, May Also Become Clearer.

Know What Thou Canst Work At, And Work At It Like A Hercules.

What This Country Needs Is A Man Who Knows God Other Than By Heresay.

Necessity Dispenseth With Decorum.

All Human Things Do Require To Have An Ideal In Them; To Have Some Soul In Them.