Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship.

What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!