Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.

Our prayers are prophets.

The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,--more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its influence to its friend, than any kingdom in history. For a man, rightly viewed, comprehendeth the particular natures of all men.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.