Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

He who is not actively kind is cruel!

The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.

Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.