The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.

One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol of identity.

Jesus and Shakespeare are fragments of the soul, and by love I conquer and incorporate them in my own conscious domain. His virtue,--is not that mine? His wit,--if it cannot be made mine, it is not wit.