It is those who make the least display of their sorrow who mourn the deepest.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.

Let every man be free to act from his own conscience; but let him remember that other people have consciences too; and let not his liberty be so expansive that in its indulgence it jars and crashes against the liberty of others.

Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity--its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling.