"The soul is not a function of the body, but the body is a function of the soul."

"The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

"I have no desire to be great, but I have a desire to be true."

"We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."

"Men are what their mothers made them."