Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.

For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.