It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.

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

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.