The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.