It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.

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

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?

A good horse makes short miles.