We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man.

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.