The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in due time, when we are able to choose our position better, and the sun is at our back.

The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

Fate loves the fearless.

All God's angels come to us disguised.