Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

Every man is grave alone.

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often wastes its effort in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.