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

Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.

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.

Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.