Every reform was once a private opinion.

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal laws which it discloses yet it does not surprise the moral sentiment that was older and awaited expectant these larger insights.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.

But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.