What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.