Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.

The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.