The world exists for the education of each man.

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.

Today is a king in disguise.

Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.