It Is The Worst Humiliation And Grievance

I Have Suffered, Like Other Writers, From Indolence, Irresolution, Distaste To My Work, Absence Of 'inspiration,' And All That: But I Have Also Found That Sitting Down, However Reluctantly, With The Pen In My Hand, I Have Never Worked For One Quarter Of An Hour Without Finding Myself In Full Train.

The Instruction Furnished Is Not Good Enough For The Youth Of Such A Country ... There Is Not Even Any Systematic Instruction Given On Political Morals: An Enormous Deficiency In A Republic.

Keep Innocency, And Take Heed Unto The Thing That Is Right, For That Shall Bring A Man Peace At The Last.

The Habit Of Dwelling On The Past, Has A Narrowing As Well As A Debilitating Influence. Behind Us, There Is A Small, - An Almost Insignificant Measure Of Time; Before Us, There Is An Eternity. It Is The Natural Tendency Of The Mind To Magnify The One, And To Diminish The Other.

His Subject Is The "origin Of Species," & Not The Origin Of Organization; & It Seems A Needless Mischief To Have Opened The Latter Speculation At All.