Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.

A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.

When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.

Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.

The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom.