Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

Man is made of the same atoms the world is, he shares the same impressions, predispositions, and destiny. When his mind is illuminated, when his heart is kind, he throws himself joyfully into the sublime order, and does, with knowledge, what the stones do by structure.

My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same.

Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.