A brave mind is always impregnable.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

People’s opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.

What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience, – to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?

Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind, and sweetness of temper, – balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a richer spirit.

By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one’s nativity is better than Plato’s pre-existence.

Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man’s imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person.

Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God’s will.

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.