The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

Conversation is our account of ourselves...Conversation is the vent of character as well as thoughts...It is the laboratory of the student.

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

The question is whether [suicide] is the way out, or the way in.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.

Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.