To eat bread is one thing; to love the precepts of Christ and resolve to obey them is quite another.

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.

The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.