“It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.”
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.