The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.
A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.
Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.
God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.
Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.