When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.