The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.

What matters most is not what is behind us or before us, but what is within us.

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals; - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls.

In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.