The house praises the carpenter.

The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.

But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant