When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way we are strong, by borrowing the might of the elements. The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day and cost us nothing.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.