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.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or notice taken when anybody enters or leaves. Let the entering man take his place and pipe, without obligatory remarks; if he cannot smoke...let him at least affect to do so, and not ruffle the established stream of things.

The nobleness of silence. The highest melody dwells only in silence,--the sphere melody, the melody of health.

The mathematics of high achievement

In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.