Pride eradicates all vices but itself.

Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.

Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.

Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learningsomething. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into creation.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.