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

To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.

If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.

The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.