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

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

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

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

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.

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