Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

Other world? There is no other world; here or nowhere is the whole fact.

The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

Life is too short to waste.

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.