“A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge
“No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.
“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
“A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others
“People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something
“An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery
“The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing , to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts, not a select party
“The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others
“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
“We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
“The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living
“The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health
“Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century
“Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life
“Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams