The less government we have the better.

You cannot see the mountain near.

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

The crystal sphere of thought is as concentrical as the geological structure of the globe. As our soils and rocks lie in strata, concentric strata, so do all men's thinkings run laterally, never vertically.

I confess myself utterly at a loss in suggesting particular reforms in our ways of teaching. No discretion that can be lodged with a school-committee, with the overseers or visitors of an academy, of a college, can at all avail to reach these difficulties and perplexities, but they solve themselves when we leave institutions and address individuals.

But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.

Free should be the scholar - free and brave.