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

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil.

Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold.

Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."

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