Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

All men are children, and of one family.

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past

On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would haveheld up his head in their company.

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.

I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.