There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks he is free.

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and ransack every page.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve.