Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Animals are such agreeable friends.

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

Education is an asset no man can take away.