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

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

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

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.

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.

Home - the nursery of the Infinite.