To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career.

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.