Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

Do not shut up the young people against their will in a pew, and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will.

Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.