This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division.

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicate ways, improve yourself.

Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

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