Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?

Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.

It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reading is...

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.