Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.

Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.

Character is that which can do without success.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Self trust is the essence of heroism.

Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.