Hamilton Wright MabieThinkers

Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature manysided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.

New Year's is like every other night with no pause in the march of the universe . . .. and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.

Opposition is a good thing — a kite rises against; not with; the wind.