Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.