Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion..

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man..

Ideas first and last: yet it is not till these are formulated and utilized that the devotees of the common sense discern their value and advantages. ….

Enthusiasm is essential to the successful attainment of any high endeavor..

If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures which neither Plato nor Archimed….

A man defines his standing at the court of chastity by his views of women..

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences..

Opposition strengthens the manly will..

Genius--the free and harmonious play of all the faculties of a human being..

The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentimen….

Our ideals are our better selves..

A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight..

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep..

Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only..

Of books in our time the variety is so voluminous, and they follow so fast from the press, that one must be a swift reader to acquaint himself even w….

The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone are permitted he….

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us..

Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds..

Our favorites are few; since only what rises from the heart reaches it, being caught and carried on the tongues of men wheresoever love and letters j….

One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's..

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness..