The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.