Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Astronomy taught us our insignificance in Nature.

Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.

Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

Pride eradicates all vices but itself.