The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.

Life is to be lived, not controlled.

Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.

The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.