No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.

There are remedies for all things but death.

To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. Oh vast gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death! Why was the living banished thither companionless, conscious? Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God?

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.