“Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good”
“Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good”
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. ”
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land”
“In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons”
“A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone”
“I am fit for nothing but literature”
“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject”