“All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never; every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever.”

“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”

“The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough”

“Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators”

“The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for”

“It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution”