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.

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.

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.

All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

Go down again - I dwell among the people.

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.