The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram. - Edwin Percy Whipple

The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections.

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.

Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention'