Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.

Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged."

There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done.

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

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

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.