“Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.”

“A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel.”

“The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.”

“Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.”

“No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.”

“When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.”

“The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.”