"Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, where death's approach is seen so terrible!"

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."

"We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind."

"My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, nor to one place."

"An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told."

"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!"

"Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting."

"Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid."

"Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction."

"I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected."

"Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else."

"When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business."