War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

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.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.

Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth out not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration. The only distinctions which should be recognized are those of the soul, of strong principle, of incorruptible integrity, of usefulness, of cultivated intellect, of fidelity in seeking the truth.