Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.
A collection of books is the best of all universities.
Laughter means sympathy.
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!
The steam-engine I call fire-demon and great; but it is nothing to the invention of fire.