We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. The whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. How many persons we meet in houses, whom we scarcely speak to, whom yet we honor and who honor us! How many we see in the street, or sit with in church, whom though silently, we warmly rejoice to be with! Read the language of these wandering eye-beams. The heart knoweth.

We read often with as much talent as we write.

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

New York is a sucked orange.

What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.