To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.
Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.
Postpone not your life.
Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!
We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.