All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene

Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.

Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that entrusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene