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

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

A man cannot speak but he judges himself