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

No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.

The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Compassionate Saviour! We welcome Thee to our world, We welcome Thee to our hearts. We bless Thee for the Divine goodness Thou hast brought from heaven; for the souls Thou hast warmed with love to man, and lifted up in love to God; for the efforts of divine philanthropy which Thou hast inspired; and for that hope of a pure celestial life, through which Thy disciples triumph over death.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

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