Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

A noble book! all men's book!

Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!