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.

Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

Seen from a lower point of view, the Constitution, with all its faults, is very good; the law and the courts are very respectable;even this State and this American government are, in many respects, very admirable, and rare things, to be thankful for, such as a great many have described them; but seen from a point of view a little higher, they are what I have described them; seen from a higher still, and the highest, who shall say what they are, or that they are worth looking at or thinking of at all?

Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins.

Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.

I love the broad margin to my life.

The scenery when it is truly seen reacts on the life of the seer.