It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state. |
It is better to plan less and do more |
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. |
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. |
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great. |
It is mind which does the work of the world, so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplished. |
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. |
Let us teach that the honor of a nation consists not in the forced submission of other states, but in equal laws and free institutions, in cultivated fields and prosperous cities; in the development of intellectual and moral power, in the diffusion of knowledge, in magnanimity and justice, in the virtues and blessings of peace. |
Life has a higher end,than to be amused. |
Literature -- the expression of a nation's mind in writing. |
Man's spiritual nature is no dream of theologians to vanish before the light of natural science. It is the grandest reality on earth. |
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power. |
Most joyful the Poet be; It is through him that all men see |
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life. |
No calculations of interest, no schemes of policy can do the work of love, of the spirit of human brotherhood. There can be no peace without but through peace within. |