The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man with an interest in himself; with a curiosity touching his own nature; to acquaint him with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength.

Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books.

There is nothing in history to parallel the influence of Jesus Christ.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

All my hurts my garden spade can heal.

Nature, as we know her, is no saint.... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.