There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men - that is genius... Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist... What I must do, is all that concerns me; not what the people think... Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues.

Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.