Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.

Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.

Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.

The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.

Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

How meanly and grossly do we deal with nature!