Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after long time.

All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?

Genius is power, talent is applicability.

Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow

Let not the author eat up the man, so that he shall be all balcony and no house.

Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.