So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though He has allowed all other men to do so.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.