For everything you gain, you lose something.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.

There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,--kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,--the rootsof all things are in man.

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages