The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.

No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

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

I had no companions to quarrel with, nobody to assist, and nobody to thank... the evil consequence of all this was not, however, what might perhaps have been expected, that I grew up selfish or non affectionate; but that, when affection did come, it came with a violence utterly rampant and unmanageable.

God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.

Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young man spoken of as giving promise of great genius, the first question I ask about him always is, Does he work?