There are twenty ways of going to a point, and one is the shortest; but set out at once on one. A man who has that presence of mind which can bring to him on the instant all he knows, is worth for action a dozen men who know as much, but can only bring it to light slowly.

Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.

I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to go to church no more.

We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.