Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate! - Horace Mann

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

If any man seeks greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.