Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.

The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.