There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.

Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

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

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.