Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!

A thought once awakened does not again slumber.

We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.