“You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.
“The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
“The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.
“Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world
“If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world
“Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind
“A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world