As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

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.

We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.

When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?