Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

There is nothing so costly as ignorance.

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.

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

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.

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