How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them

[For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into a heap of mechanism numbered with its wheels, and weighed with its hammer strokes - this, nature bade not, - this, God blesses not, - this, humanity for no long time is able to endure.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the things He has prepared for them that love Him.