Seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

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.

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

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

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.

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.