A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

When we can't piece together the puzzle of our own lives, remember the best view of a puzzle is from above. Let Him help put you together.

The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.

The pleasure of eloquence is in greatest part owing often to the stimulus of the occasion which produces it- - to the magic of sympathy, which exalts the feeling of each by radiating on him the feeling of all.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry.

Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.