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

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.

Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.