A hero's love is as delicate as a maiden's.

We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process, not of enlightening, but of obfuscating the mind was going on, and the pupils received only so much light as could penetrate the shadow of the Catholic church.

I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality.

You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand-heap. You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.