We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.