Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.''

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.