Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone.

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much, but can only bring it to light slowly.

I have only one doctrine, the infinitude of the private man.

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All