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

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are holes and dens. If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees.

You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who renounceshimself, comes to himself.

A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.