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

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.

All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.

Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain.

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

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.