It is easy to carp at colleges, and the college, if he will wait for it, will have its own turn. Genius exists there also, but will not answer a call of a committee of the House of Commons. It is rare, precious, eccentric, and darkling.

But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.

The student is to read history actively and not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves.

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.