This London City, with all of its houses, palaces, steam-engines, cathedrals, and huge immeasurable traffic an tumult, what is it but a Thought, but millions of Thoughts made into One-a huge immeasurable Spirit of a Thought, embodied in brick, in iron, smoke, dust, Palaces, Parliaments, Hackney Coaches, Katherine Docks, and the rest of it! Not a brick was made but some man had to think of the making of that brick.

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.

There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.

The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.