There is a remedy for every wrong and a satisfaction for every soul.

He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.

Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.

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