Doing well is a result of doing good.

Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

How can we speak of the action of the mind under any divisions, as of its knowledge, of its ethics, of its works, and so forth, since it melts will into perception, knowledge into act? Each becomes the other. Itself alone is.

The reverence for the Scriptures is an element of civilization, for thus has the history of the world been preserved, and is preserved.

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.

Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.