A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

Tart, cathartic virtue.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

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

Genius is intellect constructive.

A fly is as untamable as a hyena.