Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.
It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.
Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.
A true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things.
Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.
God hides things by putting them near us.