All Quotes

Love conquers all difficulties, surmounts all obstacles, and effects what to any other power would be impossible. ”

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire. ”

Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh and motion and a boundless variety of determinations and actions. ”

Duty is that mode of action which constitutes the best application of the capacity of the individual to the general advantage. ”

We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to or detract from the discharge of our duty. ”

I know not how it is: there are some businesses for which dullness seems to be a qualification. ”

No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them. ”

The four principal oral instructors to whom I feel my mind indebted for improvement were Joseph Fawcet, Thomas Holcroft, George Dyson, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. ”

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity. ”

Every boy learns more in his hours of play than in his hours of labor. In school, he lays in the materials of thinking, but in his sports, he actually thinks: he whets his faculties, and he opens his eyes. ”