Heaven is neither here nor there to me. Everywhere and nowhere. Just not in between, But I believe in Heaven.

Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.

The greater your real strength and power, the quieter it will be exercised.

The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated.

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

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

Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.