Man's life is a progress, not a station.

The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star

Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my word as good as my bond, and to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry, and art.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.

The highest virtue is always against the law.