One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said "Let him touch it." So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.

Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.