Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is put out for them.

I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

But why look back at all? Why turn your eyes to your shadow, when, by looking upward, you see your rainbow in the same direction?

How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.