Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession.

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

That which shows God in me, fortifies me. That which shows God out of me, makes me a wart and a wen.