It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

Good as is discourse, silence is better and shames it.

A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.