Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

Everything in our world, even a drop of dew, is a microcosm of the universe.