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

Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.

Pleasure comes through toil, and not by self indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work, his life is a happy one.

Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

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.

The best work never was and never will be done for money.