I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.

This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.

A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike, his word is current in all countries; and all men, though his enemies, are made his friends and obey it as their own.

Men in all ways are better than they seem.

Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

The greatest discoveries are those that shed light unto ourselves.