Every discourse is an approximate answer: but it is of small consequence, that we do not get it into verbs and nouns, whilst it abides for contemplation forever.

Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.

When life has been well spent, age is a loss of what it can well spare,--muscular strength, organic instincts, gross bulk, and works that belong to these. But the central wisdom, which was old in infancy, is young in fourscore years, and dropping off obstructions, leaves in happy subjects the mind purified and wise.

The vocabulary of an omniscient man would embrace words and images excluded from polite conversation. What would be base, or even obscene, to the obscene, becomes illustrious, spoken in a new connexion of thought.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

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