No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.

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.

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

Real greatness has nothing to do with a man’s sphere. It does not lie in the magnitude of his outward agency, in the extent of the effects which he produces. The greatest men may do comparatively little.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

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.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.