When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

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.

What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity; not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.

You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Time has only a relative existence.

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it