Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.

Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.

Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

The ragged cliff has thousand faces in a thousand hours.