God will not make himself manifest to cowards

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!

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.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

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

Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.