Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

Frankness invites frankness.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

The world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.

The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.

A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.