Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence reign. But in society the bars and locks have been broken; the dungeon itself is demolished; the prisoners are out; they are in the midst of us. We have no security but to teach and renovate them.

Patient perseverance in well doing is infinitely harder than a sudden and impulsive self-sacrifice.

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.

Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.