Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.

All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, trebleor centuple use and meaning.

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

Nature is thoroughly mediate. It is made to serve. It receives the dominion of man as meekly as the ass on which the Saviour rode.It offers all its kingdoms to man as the raw material which he may mould into what is useful. Man is never weary of working it up.

I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.