Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.

Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.