Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.

The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions, has added to his fitness for his own work.

Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.