There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and up to our great mystery of command over them, and claims the fellowship of the creature if not of the soul.

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

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

I know well that happiness is in little things.