Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.

Between whom there is hearty truth there is love.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a moral one.