Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.

Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious: it ought to be our never-ceasing effort to make people think, not feel.

There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night.