A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.