There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness, a fine scholar, a fine forensic orator, and some master of the brawls has crunched him up in his hands like a bit of paper.

The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.