"I have in fact been a very lucky fellow; I have often said that I should be a very miserable creature if I could not feel that I was doing something for the good of other people."

"I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds."

"The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction."

"Let us now consider, for a little while, how wonderfully we stand upon this world. Here it is we are born, bred, and live, and yet we view these things with an almost entire absence of wonder to ourse…"

"I have often been accused of being a dreamer, but I have found that dreams can become reality."