We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.

One thought settles a life, an immortality.

Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.

The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.

It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.

Error is worse than ignorance.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.