Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young..

There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with t….

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it..

Truths, no matter how momentous or enduring, are nothing to the individual until he appreciates them, and feels their force, and acknowledges their s….

When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect..

Finally, in regard to those who possess the largest shares in the stock of worldly goods, could there, in your opinion, be any police so vigilant and….

God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked..

Education is an organic necessity of a human being..

Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and an….

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism..

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power..

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital..

We do ourselves the most good doing something for others..

We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence..

New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation..

Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain..

Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good..

If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or sacrifice that the human heart can endure, it is the c….

They who set an example make a highway. Others follow the example, because it is easier to travel on a highway than over untrodden grounds..

Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children..

You may as well borrow a person's money as his time..