The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds.

This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.

False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas the only liberty that a man, worthy of the name of man, ought to ask for, is, to have all restrictions, inward and outward, removed that prevent his doing what he ought.

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked.

Read a work on the "Evidences of Christianity," and it may become highly probable that Christianity, etc., are true. This is an opinion. Feel God. Do His will, till the Absolute Imperative within you speaks as with a living voice, "Thou shalt, and thou shalt not;" and then you do not think, you know that there is a God.

That friend, given to you by circumstances over which you have not control, was God's own gift.