Education is an asset no man can take away.

I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing.

Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.

trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it.

We cannot reform our forefathers.

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind, and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.