To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.

The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

Home - the nursery of the Infinite.

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.