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

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..

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….

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

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the ….

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

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….

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen..

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail..

Want of occupation is the bane of both men and women, perhaps more especially of the latter..

Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have bee….

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals..

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….

Benevolence is a world of itself -- a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts f….

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

Spurn not at seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth; And beware of seeming truths that grow on the roots of error..

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….

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….

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….

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 ….

But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge..