It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

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.

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

He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the almost preternatural clearness, volubility, and sensitiveness of mind.

It has been said that true religion will make a man a more thorough gentleman than all the courts in Europe. And it is true that you may see simple laboring men as thorough gentlemen as any duke, simply because they have learned to fear God; and, fearing him, to restrain themselves, which is the very root and essence of all good breeding.

All but God is changing day by day.