Frankness invites frankness.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open.

Natural religion supplies still all the facts which are disguised under the dogma of popular creeds. The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals.

Our distrust is very expensive.

Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.