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

The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.

We never know a greater character unless there is in ourselves something congenial to it.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

I am a living member of the great family of all souls.