The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties which are none of his.

Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization.

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.

'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.