Thomas Carlyle

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.