Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

We are so curiously made that one atom put in the wrong place in our original structure will often make us unhappy for life.

Invisible things are the only realities; invisible things alone are the things that shall remain.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

Everything that is usually understood by the term co-operation is, in some degree, an evil.

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.