be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.

There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.

Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.

When we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,--those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.

On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.