My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers.

The world is sown with good; but unless I turn my glad thoughts into practical living and till my own field. I cannot reap a kernel of the good.

Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

For my part, I wish, with Mr. Howells, that the literature of the past might be purged of all that is ugly and barbarous in it, although I should object as much as any one to having these great works weakened or falsified.