It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.

To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.

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.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.