Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.

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

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

God is Unity, but always works in variety.

It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

Never utter the truism but live it among men.