Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. It must not surmise or provide for infirmity. It treats its object as a god, that it might deify both.

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.

By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.