The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry, she carries them.

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.