Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce counter-agency to the scorn of the unworthy, daily evoked by his personal defects, who with a handsome person would have sunk into the luxury of a careless life under the tranquillizing smiles of continual admiration.

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.

There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach; the function of the second is -- to move.

The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.

Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.