Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

I admire answers to which no answers can be made.

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.

The doctrine of Necessity or Destiny is the doctrine of Toleration.