If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.

The eye is the best of artists.

The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

The rich mind lies in the sun and sleeps, and is Nature.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.