We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.
For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?
We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.
Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.
Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.
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.