Great things are done by devotion to one idea.

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.

The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.