Race is precisely of as much consequence in man as it is in any animal.

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

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.

I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is coloured by "chlorophyll," which at first sounds very instructive; but if they would only say plainly that a leaf is coloured green by a thing which is called "green leaf," we should see more precisely how far we had got.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.