A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants.

The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect.

Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.