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

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

An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.

Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.

Precept is instruction written in the sand; the tide flows over it and the record is gone; example is graven on the rock, and the lesson is not soon lost.

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life