My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it, of that divine nectar, to bear my head through atmospheres and over heights unknown to my feet, is perennial and constant.

We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.

We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.

Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.