Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged."

The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is so, is the most glorious of all that can be demonstrated of human nature; it not only sets a great gulf of specific separation between us and the lower animals, but it seems a promise of a communion ultimately deep, close, and conscious, with the Being whose darkened manifestations we here feebly and unthinkingly delight in.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.