The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.

All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.

The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

Accept your genius and say what you think.

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.