The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men or they are no better than dreams.

The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.

Doing well is a result of doing good.

In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.