Therefore, let us be patient, patient; and let God our Father teach His own lesson, His own way. Let us try to learn it well and quickly; but do not ….

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day..

You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smalles….

The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again..

Duty--the command of heaven, the eldest voice of God..

And no one has the right to say that no water-babies exist, till they have seen no water-babies existing; which is quite a different thing, mind, fro….

The Invitation, To Tom Highes What we can we will be, Honest Englishmen. Do the work that's nearest, Though it's dull at whiles, Helping, when we mee….

I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences..

Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back..

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about..

There is a great deal of human nature in man..

I hope that my children, at least, if not I myself, will see the day when ignorance of the primary laws and facts of science will be looked upon as a….

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love..

Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?.

Nothing is so infectious as example..

There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late..

It has been said that true religion will make a man a more thorough gentleman than all the courts in Europe. And it is true that you may see simple l….

How long would it take a school-inspector of average activity to tumble head over heels from London toYork?.

After all, there is such a thing as looking like a gentleman. There are men whose class no dirt or rags can hide, any more than they could Ulysses. I….

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousan….

Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy..