An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.

Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches to the door and to the first stair you ascent, that this is the road to the stars.

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Only by the supernatural is a man strong--only by confiding in the divinity which stirs within us. Nothing is so weak as an egotist--nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.

Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.