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.

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

He that is possessed with a prejudice is possessed with a devil, and one of the worst kinds of devils, for it shuts out the truth, and often leads to ruinous error.