Great Throughts Treasury

"Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past."

"Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or a Shakespeare."

"What we need most is not so much the ideal as to idealize the real."

"And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow."