Every man is a channel through which heaven floweth.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea, by voyaging; to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople: to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.

We go to Europe to be Americanized.

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.