The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

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.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.

I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.