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.

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament. They do not realize that we always weaken what we exaggerate.

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.