Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which refuses to be the slave or tool of the many or of the few, and guards its empire over itself as nobler than the empire of the world.

A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.

Be true to your own highest convictions.

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.

He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.