The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .