We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
No book was ever written down by any but itself.
The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.
Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.