“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.”

“Life transforming ideas have always come to me through books.”

“To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.”

“A man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”

“Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.”

“Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out arose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patientlyand the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.”

“The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of an eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.”