Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

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

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.

Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.