Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

I unsettle all things.

Accuracy is essential to beauty.

I am Defeated all the time, yet to Victory I am born.

The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.