But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.

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

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man. Whoever yields to temptation debases himself with a debasement from which he can never arise.

Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up into inventors and discoverers, into skilled artisans and scientific farmers, into scholars and jurists, into the founders of benevolent institutions, and the great expounders of ethical and theological science.

Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge.