When guests enter the room their entertainers rise to receive them; and in all meetings men should ascend into their higher selves, imparting to one … - John Lancaster Spalding

He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.

If we attempt to sink the soul in matter, its light is quenched.

Drunkards and sensualists have become heroes and saints; but sluggards have never risen to the significance and worth of human beings. Sloth enfeebles the root of life, and degrades more surely, if less swiftly, than the sins of passion.