What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.

No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!

Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.