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

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

We who are engaged in the sacred cause of education are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause.

There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs.

If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets.

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.