The education of the will is the object of our existence.

I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons.

It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in Paradise again.

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

You cannot make a cheap palace.

Popularity is for dolls.