There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.

You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors.

I read your piece on Plato. Holmes, when you strike at a king, you must kill him.

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.