What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.

He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.

Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.

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