Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life?

I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.