And man's little Life has Duties that are great, that are alone great, and go up to Heaven and down to Hell.

Be not a slave of words.

Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as a thruth that they knew and acted upon. Verily it was another world then, but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls. We shall have to go in search of them again or worse in all ways shall befall us.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.