"The human mind will not be confined..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.”

“Nothing is worse than active ignorance.”

“A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.”

“There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.”

“It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because, then, young men and women are tempted to believe, well, if he was that great, he's inaccessible, and I can never try to be that or emulate that or achieve that.”

“Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.”

“Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind”

“The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.”

“When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of its allusions and the rapidity of its transitions. Before one of them is half through a sentence the other knows his meaning and replies. ... His mental lungs breathe more deeply, in an atmosphere more broad and vast.”