Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Go face the fire at sea, or the cholera in your friend's house, or the burglar in your own, or what danger lies in the way of duty, knowing you are guarded by the cherubim of Destiny. If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.

Do what you fear and your fear will die.

Our expense is almost all for conformity. It is for cake that we run in debt; 'tis not the intellect, not the heart, not beauty, not worship, that costs so much.

Civilization depends on morality.

A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.