Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

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

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?