He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there...
False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Character is what God and the angels know of us reputation is what men and women think of us.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
Virtue is an angel but she is a blind one and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.
Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility...