Love is more just than justice.

The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.

You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

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.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.