Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement and grandeur belonging to the science itself. It is a quickener of devotion.

Teachers teach because they care. Teaching young people is what they do best. It requires long hours, patience, and care.

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

Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.

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