The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.

With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my God! shall the life never be sweet!

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.