It is far more difficult, I assure you, to live for the truth than to die for it.

Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.

In the march of universal improvement, education must lead the van.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn, is hammering on cold iron.

Man is improvable.

You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth.

Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.

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

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

A man of worth is like gold--never out of fashion.

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.

Knowledge is a mimic creation.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

Let us labor for that larger and larger comprehension of truth, that more and more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

There are some men and women whose sympathies for others' pains are as quick as the consciousness of their own; who feel a personal relief from suffering when others are relieved; and to whose ear the song of the captive ransomed from guilt is sweeter than a thousand-voiced chorus, pealing their own praises. These are the god-like.

If you can express yourself so as to be perfectly understood in ten words, never use a dozen.

Manners very easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Were a young man to write down a list of his duties, health should be among the first items in the catalogue; this is no exaggeration of its value, for health is indispensable to almost every form of human enjoyment.