A great teacher makes hard things easy.

The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear.

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be madeby the reception of beautiful sentiments.

All diseases run into one, old age.