O friend, never strike sail to a fear!.

But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions ….

But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world..

It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision..

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. There is one of whom we took no note, but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret vir….

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other..

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome..

He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard..

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity..

The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honore….

Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it..

Thy dangerous glances make women of men; new-born, we are melting into nature again..

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone..

The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a governme….

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them..

We boil at different degrees..

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's..

Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go..

Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much..

I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster ….

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it..