Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is put out for them.

I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.

To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.

I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.