Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

No day is without its innocent hope.

The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.