Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it ar….

If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thril….

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals..

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike..

Just in proportion as a man becomes good, divine, Christ-like, he passes out of the region of theorizing, of system-building, and hireling service, i….

Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated..

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing..

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies of….

We conceive of immortality as having a beginning, but no end; but we conceive of eternity as having neither beginning nor end. Hence it is proper to ….

Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's ro….

So, in the infinitely nobler battle in which you are engaged against error and wrong, if ever repulsed or stricken down, may you always be solaced an….

Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of laws written on parchm….

Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of win….

When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fr….

The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any r….

There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that….

Astronomy is one of the sublimest fields of human investigation. The mind that grasps its facts and principles receives something of the enlargement ….

Those who exert the first influence upon the mind have the greatest power..

Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes..

Of all "rights" which command attention at the present time among us, woman's rights seem to take precedence..

School is the cheapest police..