The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them. The right punishment of one out of tune, isto make him play in tune; the fine which the good, refusing to govern, ought to pay, is, to be governed by a worse man; that his guards shall not handle gold and silver, but shall be instructed that there is gold and silver in their souls, which will make men willing to give them every thing which they need.

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have no other data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them.

Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.