Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come, which receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.

What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life

It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.