Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.

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

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.

Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

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

Of all the discoveries which men need to make, the most important, at the present moment, is that of the self-forming power treasured up in themselves. They little suspect its extent, as little as the savage apprehends the energy which the mind is created to exert on the material world.