He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.

This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World