The task ahead of us is never as great as the power behind us.

Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation, but that wise men thinking for themselves and heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life; that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room, and children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?

No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!

Do what you fear and your fear will die.

Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my word as good as my bond, and to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry, and art.

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.