We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.
Love is not a possession but a growth. The heart is a lamp with just oil enough to burn for an hour, and if there be no oil to put in again its light will go out. God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.
What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Love is more just than justice.
God's providence is on the side of clear heads.
It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.