Language is the archives of history.

What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!

Talent may frolic and juggle; genius realizes and adds.

But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact. Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet, for God is here within.

Ever the words of the gods resound; But the porches of man's ear seldom in this low life's round are unsealed, that he may hear.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.