You cannot do a kindness too soon.

Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

A day is a miniature eternity.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.

We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited.