Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.

Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding

Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of any master-tones that have a droning preponderance in his scale, and succor him against himself. Culture redresses this imbalance, puts him among equals and superiors, revives the delicious sense of sympathy, and warns him of the dangers of solitude and repulsion.

Whenever the pulpit is usurped by a formalist, then is the worshipper defrauded and disconsolate.

Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.