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

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

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.

I am a living member of the great family of all souls; and I cannot improve or suffer myself, without diffusing good or evil around me through an ever-enlarging sphere. I belong to this family. I am bound to it by vital bonds.

Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

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