Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.

Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.

The highest end of government is the culture of men.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.