Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.