A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.
Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.
Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of laws written on parchment, will be as vain as to put up printed notices in an orchard to keep off the canker-worms.