Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.

I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today; second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work; and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.

Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law

Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.