Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

Love without conversation is impossible.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice

Books are absent teachers.

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.