He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.

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.

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.