To find yourself, think for yourself.
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
A man is a god in ruins.
The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world’s eye.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.
A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.
Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
Language is the archives of history.
The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself into one.
The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Very few people can afford to be poor.
