Live, let live, and help live

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us.

What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?

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

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifferenceto death.