It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.

There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.

Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.

The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

What is really desired, under the name of riches, is essentially, power over men ... this power ... is in direct proportion to the poverty of the men over whom it is exercised, and in inverse proportion to the number of persons who are as rich as ourselves.

Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew The earth.