If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it.

How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to themasterpieces of art and nature, is the problem of civilization.

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.

Wait, and thy soul shall speak.