One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

Popularity is for dolls.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.

These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets and oracles, the high-priesthood of the pure reason, the Trismegisti, the expounders of the principles of thought from age to age.