Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

Into what boundless life, does education admit us. Every truth gained through it expands a moment of time into illimitable being--positively enlarges our existence, and endows us with qualities which time cannot weaken or destroy.

Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as much delight in his kite or drum as the other in striking the springs of enterprise or soaring on the wings of fame.

Humanity is so constituted that the basest criminal represents you and me, as well as the most glorious saint that walks on high. We are reflected in all other men; all other men are embodied in us.