God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

There is in stillness oft a magic power To calm the breast when struggling passions lower, Touched by its influence, in the soul arise Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.