“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.
“Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance
“He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a lifetime is unraveled
“Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know
“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
“The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living
“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