A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

Culture opens the sense of beauty.

Only that mind draws me which I cannot read.

The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in the spirit and energy it awakens.

There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.