Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself.

It is a luxury to be understood.

And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

Enthusiasm is the engine of success.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.