Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
Thomas De Quincey
The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
Nathaniel P Willis
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
James Russell Lowell
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.
Edwin P Whipple
The child is father of the man.
William Wordsworth
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
William M Thackeray
Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule
Charles Dickens
Is it a fact -- or have I dreamt it -- that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.