Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.

A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.

Time is a trust, and for every minute of it you will have to account.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not.