Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men -- the balance-wheel of the social machinery."

"If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both."

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

"Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it."

"It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one."