Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity.

I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone.

Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.