Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

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.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

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

We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.

When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.

Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.