Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

Eyes bright, with many tears, behind them.