"A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself."
"All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be."
"Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."
"I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics."
"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."
"Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid."