Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.

Thoughts rule the world.

Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.

The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.