The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.