Elihu Burritt

Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing…

— Elihu Burritt

No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.

— Elihu Burritt

Our minds are like certain vehicles,--when they have little to carry they make much noise about it, but when heavily loaded they…

— Elihu Burritt

Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and…

— Elihu Burritt

Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when…

— Elihu Burritt

Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence.

— Elihu Burritt

All that I have accomplished ... has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle…

— Elihu Burritt

Be ever gentle with the children God has given you; watch over them constantly; reprove them earnestly, but not in anger. In…

— Elihu Burritt

Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on…

— Elihu Burritt

All the beautiful orders of architecture and creations of the pencil, all the conceptions of the beautiful in nature and art and…

— Elihu Burritt