If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of the visible creation, that principle is not liberty, but law.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.

And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride.

One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking.