Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

Every time you wink the stars move.

Persons are fine things, but they cost so much! for thee I must pay me.

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.