The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.

Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men.

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth beside. Think of the consummate folly of attempting to go away from here! When the constant endeavor should be to get nearer and nearer here!