Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.

What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.

... A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853)

When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a house-hold God, as well as a heavenly one; He has an altar in every man's dwelling.

There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.

We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.