I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.

It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The winds, the water, electricity, all aliens that in their wild form were dangerous, are now controlled by human will, and are made useful servants.

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

The things that hurt us teach us.