The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.

If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.

There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.

If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.