Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

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

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.

Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.