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.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

All vigor is contagious.