The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.

Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.

The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these associations and connections, and in the dullness in discovering such transitions which the other shows.

If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified in a crude shape, I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more.

Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.

Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.