I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.

To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.