Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.

We pass for what we are.

Pure by impure is not seen.

Ah, if the rich were rich as the poor fancy riches.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.

The most tedious of all discourses are on the subject of the Supreme Being.