Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.

As long as any man exists, there is some need of him.

A little integrity is better than any career.

God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the muses sing.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.