He that rides his hobby gently must always give way to him that rides his hobby hard.

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.

Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.

Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer.

The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, "All summer in the field, and all winter in the study." And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.