Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.

No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him. There is always work, and tools to work with, for those who will, and blessed are the horny hands of toil. The busy world shoves angrily aside the man who stands with arms akimbo until occasion tells him what to do; and he who waits to have his task marked out shall die and leave his errand unfulfilled.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.