The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.

Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.

Custom doth make dotards of us all.

Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".