To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.

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

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the 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.