There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.

O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!

The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day? No, the Great Man does not boast himself sincere, far from that; perhaps does not ask himself if he is so: I would say rather, his sincerity does not depend on himself; he cannot help being sincere!

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.

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.