The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.

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

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

Education is a capital to the poor man, and an interest to the rich man.

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

Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.