The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

I am never less alone than when alone.

Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious practice.