Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.

The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.

Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.

Nature forever puts a premium on reality. What is done for effect is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love is felt to be done for love. A man inspires affection and honor because he was not lying in wait for these.

An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.

The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will, but pleasantly, and, as it were, merrily, he advancesto his own music, alike in frightful alarms and in the tipsy mirth of universal dissoluteness.