All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Freedom is the essence of this faith. It has for its object simply to make men good and wise. Its institutions then should be as flexible as the wants of men. That form out of which the life and suitableness have departed should be as worthless in its eyes as the dead leaves that are falling around us.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.