A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.

Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.

The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.

It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascinationfor all educated Americans.