When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.

Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.