A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry.

Thought makes everything fit for use.

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

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.

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.