The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed.

To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.

Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.

'Infidel' is a term of reproach, which Christians and Mohammedans, in their modesty, agree to apply to those who differ from them.

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance that there are a great many people in the world who are just as clever as you are. You learn to put your trust, by and by, in an economy and frugality of the exercise of your powers, both moral and intellectual; and you very soon find out, if you have not found it out before, that patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.