Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.

Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . . Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man. I say great men are still admirable; I say there is, at bottom, nothing else admirable! No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of men.

The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?

The genuine essence of truth never dies.