I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.

Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.

Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.

Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.