Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

Add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors, because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.

One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars