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.

I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances of their education,--what furthered, what hindered, what in any way modified it.

Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God!

Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

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

The archenemy is the arch stupid!