Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism.

What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.

Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.