It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence.

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

It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered, amongst the multitude! Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power; and while a philosopher is discovering one new truth, millions may be propagated amongst the people. Diffusion, then, rather than discovery, is the duty of our government.

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

Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.