Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.

Knowledge is a mimic creation.

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects.

In our country and in our times no man is worthy the honored name of statesman who does not include the highest practicable education of the people in all his plans of administration. He may have eloquence, he may have a knowledge of all history, diplomacy, jurisprudence; and by these he might claim, in other countries, the elevated rank of a statesman: but unless he speaks, plans, labors, at all times and in all places, for the culture and edification of the whole people, he is not, he cannot be, an American statesman.