The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

Genius Borrows nobly.

There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.

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

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!