Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

The society of the energetic class, in their friendly and festive meetings, is full of courage, and of attempts, which intimidatethe pale scholar.

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.