As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music.

We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is the universe. To attend chiefly to the desk or schoolhouse while we neglect the scenery in which it is placed is absurd. If we do not look out we shall find our find schoolhouse standing in a cow-yard at last.

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

I will not allow mere names to make distinctions for me, but still see men in herds for all them.

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.