Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will separate between him and what he touches. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime... But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.

A system-grinder hates the truth.

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American.