Never try to make anyone like you: you know, and God knows, that one of you is enough.

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.

The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man with an interest in himself; with a curiosity touching his own nature; to acquaint him with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.