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.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.