A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

'Tis a superstition to insist on a special diet. All is made at last of the same chemical atoms.

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.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

The greatest homage to truth is to use it.