Go forward with joyful confidence.

A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.