“Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.”

“There's nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth.”

“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.”

“Yet in opinions look not always back,--Your wake is nothing, mind the coming track;Leave what you've done for what you have to do;Don't be "consistent," but be simply true.”

“Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good”

“The great thing in this world, is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving.”

“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.”