No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.

It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.

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

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

How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?

I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances of their education,--what furthered, what hindered, what in any way modified it.