A man's social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend who has a hard breast, as he wouldlie on a hard bed. He must drink cold water for his only beverage. So he must not hear sweetened and colored words, but pure and refreshing truths. He must daily bathe in truth cold as spring water, not warmed by the sympathy of friends.

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

In our daily intercourse with men, our nobler faculties are dormant and suffered to rust. None will pay us the compliment to expect nobleness from us. Though we have gold to give, they demand only copper.

Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory.

We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.

Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.

When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.