You may as well borrow a person’s money as his time.
Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.
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.
Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate.
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 cause of Education.
Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.
We are prone to seek immediate pleasure or good, however small, rather than remote pleasure or good, however vast.
No combatants are so unequally matched as when one is shackled with error, while the other rejoices in the self-demonstrability of truth.
As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.
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 speak of eternity as the attribute of God, but of immortality as the attribute of man.
As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.
He who shuts out truth, by the same act opens the door to all the error that supplies its place.
On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it.
Whatever statesman or sage will effect reforms upon a gigantic or godlike scale must begin with the young.
There is not a good work which the hand of man has ever undertaken, which his heart has ever conceived, which does not require a good education for its helper.
Where a love of natural beauty has been cultivated, all nature becomes a stupendous gallery, as much superior in form and in coloring to the choicest collections of human art, as the heavens are broader and loftier than the Louvre or the Vatican.
Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.
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 are science and no miracles.
To know the machine one must know where each part belongs, and what its office is.
Love must be the same in all worlds.