There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.