Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.

Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.

Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.

Let the man stand on his feet. Let religion cease to be occasional; and the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the Household.

History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do.