Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences; but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are; a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.