“The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for
“Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject . . . The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think
“Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist
“Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it
“When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the event by; it is good and made by a good workman
“A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge
“No calculations of interest, no schemes of policy can do the work of love, of the spirit of human brotherhood. There can be no peace without but through peace within.
“People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about
“Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land
“Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.