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.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.

There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge; there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.