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

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?

A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".

The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft-voiced; it is only discord that loudly proclaims itself.