The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?

Frankness invites frankness.

Men have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend each loved his own soul.

You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.