And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.

Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself.

I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.

The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

All the world loves a lover.