Life Is Of Little Value

There Are Many Persons Of Whom It May Be Said That They Have No Other Possession In The World But Their Character, And Yet They Stand As Firmly Upon It As Any Crowned King.

What We Are Accustomed To Decry As Great Social Evils, Will, For The Most Part, Be Found To Be Only The Out-growth Of Our Own Perverted Life; And Though We May Endeavor To Cut Them Down And Extirpate Them By Means Of Law, They Will Only Spring Up Again With Fresh Luxuriance In Some Other Form, Unless The Conditions Of Human Life And Character Are Radically Improved.

The Principal Industrial Excellence Of The English People Lay In Their Capacity Of Present Exertion For A Distant Object.

Men Often Discover Their Affinity To Each Other By The Mutual Love They Have For A Book.

The Battle Of Life Is, In Most Cases, Fought Uphill; And To Win It Without A Struggle Were Perhaps To Win It Without Honor. If There Were No Difficulties There Would Be No Success; If There Were Nothing To Struggle For, There Would Be Nothing To Be Achieved.