The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man with an interest in himself; with a curiosity touching his own nature; to acquaint him with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength.

No one suspects the days to be gods.

Love is the essence of God.

The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.