To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.

Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.