It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body; but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty.

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.

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene

Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.

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