Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.

A person's fate is their own temper.

It shows you exactly how a star is formed; nothing else can be so pretty! A cluster of vapor, the cream of the milky way, a sort of celestial cheese, churned into light.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.