All Elihu Burritt Quotes
- Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth. Earth
- Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture,… Bought
- Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing music. Amongst
- No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness. Diminishing
- All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought… Accomplished
- Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence. Both