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.

THERE are joys which long to be ours.

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.