True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

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.

No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.

The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.