A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.

beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed.

Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual success is a proof that a man wisely knows his powers,--it is only to be added, that, in that case, he knows them to be small.