Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.

Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.

Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.