The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.

If we do not catch men, we are in great danger of losing even the desire to catch them. Our purposed activity is in peril of becoming a dream.

Vions are born in the soul of a man or woman who is consumed with the tension between what is and what could be.

My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow.

Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future.

All civilisation begins with a theocracy and ends with a democracy. This law of liberty succeeding unity is written in architecture.

But let those who do not desire a future reflect on this matter. When they say no to progress, it is not the future but themselves that they are condemning. They are giving themselves a sad malady; they are inoculating themselves with the past. There is but one way of rejecting To-morrow, and that is to die.

To subdue matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second.