A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.

But what is classification but the perceiving that these objects are not chaotic, and are not foreign, but have a law which is also the law of the human mind?

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

Every mind has a new compass, a new direction of its own, differencing its genius and aim from every other mind.--We call this specialty the bias of each individual. And none of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.