The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a … - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become talents, — if they could cause that a mind not profound should become profound, — we should all rush to their gates: instead of contriving inducements to draw students, you would need to set policy at the gates to keep order in the in-rushing multitude.

Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.