What then is your duty? What the day demands.

Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.