I go at what I have to do as if there were nothing else in the world for me to do.

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.