Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.