Be not a slave of words.

Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.

In idleness there is a perpetual despair.

Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.