A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike, his word is current in all countries; and all men, though his enemies, are made his friends and obey it as their own.

That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

Life is too short to waste.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.