No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality; and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.

There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.

At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

The end of man is action.

Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.