One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.

Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

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

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.