A book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf - at any rate it is safer from criticism.

There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.

Our souls belong to our bodies, not our bodies to our souls.

He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.

The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run

As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing,never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the shipwright; and she is but one craft in a Milky-Way fleet, of which God is the Lord High Admiral.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.