A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
Man is not the creature of circumstances Circumstances are the creatures of men.
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
There is no education like adversity.
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
His Christianity was muscular.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
He has not a single redeeming defect.
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.
We cannot learn men from books.
The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.