Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to overreaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Knowledge is a mimic creation.

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it; but let all you tell be truth.