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Intellect: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

The hand that follows intellect can achieve.— MICHAEL ANGELO — The Artist.

Longfellow's trans. The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.— EMERSON — Essays. Intellect.

'Tis good-will makes intelligence.— EMERSON — The Titmouse. L. 65.

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.— EMERSON — Literary Ethics.

Thou living ray of intellectual fire.— FALCONER — The Shipwreck. Canto I. L. 104.

Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. There lies the Land of Song; there lies the poet's native land.— LONGFELLOW — Hyperion. Bk. I. Ch. VIII.

A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.— GEORGES SAND — Handsome Lawrence. Ch. II.

The march of intellect.— SOUTHEY — Sir Thos. More; or, Colloquies

on the Progress and Prospects of Society. Vol. II. P. 361. Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are alternately answered.— DANIEL WEBSTER — Address at the

Laying of the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument.