Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

Man is a piece of the universe made alive.

There is no eloquence without a man behind it.

One definition of man is ''an intelligence served by organs.''

When a man meets his make, society begins.