When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.

The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.

You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray: They overleapt the horizon's edge, Searched with Apollo's privilege; Through man, and woman, and sea, and star, Saw the dance of nature forward far; Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times, Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes. Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.