Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.

Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.