There are secret articles in our treaties with the gods, of more importance than all the rest, which the historian can never know.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.

The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.

...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

The mode of founding a college is, commonly, to get up a subscription of dollars and cents, and then, following blindly the principles of a division of labor to its extreme,--a principle which should never be followed but with circumspection,--to call in a contractor who makes this a subject of speculation,... and for these oversights successive generations have to pay.