“The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, feeds upon itself.”

“He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.”

“The day is always (hers or) his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.”

“Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.”

“Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are.”

“The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.”

“We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.”