It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.

Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

A collection of books is the best of all universities.

If you will believe me, you who are young, yours is the golden season of life. As you have heard it called, so it verily is, the seed-time of life; in which, if you do not sow, or if you sow tares instead of wheat, you cannot expect to reap well afterwards, and you will arrive at little. And in the course of years when you come to look back, if you have not done what you have heard from your advisers,-and among many counsellors there is wisdom,-you will bitterly repent when it is too late.