In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.

It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.