Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.

A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".

Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.