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

Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

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.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.

Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.