In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole.

Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

God ever geometrizes.