A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.

Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.

Whoever has tasted the breath of morning knows that the most invigorating and most delightful hours of then day are commonly spent in bed; though it is the evident intention of nature that we should enjoy and profit by them.

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Give me a room whose every nook is dedicated to a book.

Take away love, and not physical nature only, but the heart of the moral world, would be palsied.