All great successes are the triumph of persistence.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

We early arrive at the great discovery that there is one mind common to all individual men: that what is individual is less than what is universalthat error, vice and disease have their seat in the superficial or individual nature.

I like people who like Plato.

People who know how to act are never preachers.

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

Every advantage has its tax.