All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing

Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.

Man is a central creature between the animals, that is to say, the most perfect form, which unites the traits of all in the most complete epitome.

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that our Earth has fashioned itself, from its chaos of substances and powers, through the animating warmth of the creative spirit, to a peculiar and original whole, by a series of preparatory revolutions, till at last the crown of its creation, the exquisite and tender creature man, was enabled to appear.

The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for his own life is in my opinion a more real being than that cultivated shadow who is enraptured with the shadow of the whole species

What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned.