No one can disgrace us but ourselves. All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving. Diligence is the mother of good luck. All is holy where devotion kneels.
Busy souls have no time to be busy bodies.
Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties. Many people live alone and like it, but most of them live alone and look it. If, almost on the day of their landings, our ancestors founded schools and endowed colleges, what obligations do not rest upon us, living under circumstances so much more favorable, both for providing and for using the means of education. You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think. A rule is a screw that can only be tightened.