Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky. ... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet.

The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

Every advantage has its tax.

But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil.

Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone.