Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other

Proverbs are the sanctuary of the intuitions.