Flowers are the earth laughing.

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.

A man is a god in ruins.

Let us take our bloated nothingness out of the path of the divine circuits.

Beware of what you want-for you will get it.

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.