If this boy passes the examinations he will be admitted; and if the while students choose to withdraw, all the income of the college will be devoted to his education."

""Are you complete in yourself?" [The root] answers, "No, my life is in the trunk and the branches and the leaves. Keep the branches stripped of leaves and I shall die." So it is with the great tree of being. Nothing is completely and merely individual."

"Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time; . . . drop a grain of our blessed gold [wheat] into the ground and lo! a mystery."

I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.

"A great character, founded on the living rock of principle, is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not merely an immediate, but a continuous, progressive, and never-ending agency. It survives the man who possessed it . . ."