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.

Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.

I like people who like Plato.

Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers

Music and Wine are one.