Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

Postpone not your life.

Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.

Be brave enough to do the loving thing.