Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.