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.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

The world is governed by opinion.

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

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.