Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.

Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are.

The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.

Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

The instinct of the people is right.