I think no virtue goes with size.

How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.

The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.

All things are known to the soul.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

The Good Spirit never cared for the colleges, and though all men and boys were now drilled in Greek, Latin, and Mathematics, it had quite left these shells high on the beach, and was creating and feeding other matters [science] at other ends of the world.