No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.

- Elihu Burritt

All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle,…

- Elihu Burritt

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence.

- Elihu Burritt

Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson…

- Elihu Burritt

Our minds are like certain vehicles,--when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they run quietly.

- Elihu Burritt

Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth.

- Elihu Burritt

Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing mu…

- Elihu Burritt

All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and humanity, are invent…

- Elihu Burritt

Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our c…

- Elihu Burritt