Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

A star is beautiful; it affords pleasure, not from what it is to do, or to give, but simply by being what it is. It befits the heavens; it has congruity with the mighty space in which it dwells. It has repose; no force disturbs its eternal peace. It has freedom; no obstruction lies between it and infinity.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?

Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.

There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.