The most active lives have so much routine as to preclude progress almost equally with the most inactive.

Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.

Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.