Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their opposites. It is a humane influence, softening with mirth the ragged inequities of existence, prompting tolerant views of life, bridging over the space which separates the lofty from the lowly, the great from the humble.

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

No education deserves the name unless it develops thought, unless it pierces down to the mysterious spiritual principle of mind, and starts that into activity and growth.

Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.