A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.

... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

when we leave society and come into the presence of Nature, we become children again; and the fictions of thought and action assumed among men drop off like a garment.

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?

... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.