The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.

Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.

Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.