When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.

'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.

Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.