The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged. - Edwin Percy Whipple

Knowledge, like religion, must be "experienced" in order to be known.

The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.

No education deserves the name, unless it develops thought,—unless it pierces down to the mysterious spiritual principle of mind, and starts that into activity and growth.