The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them-not merely industrious, but to love industry-not merely learned, but to love knowledge-not merely pure, but love purity-not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.

... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.

The history of humanity is not the history of its wars, but the history of its households.

There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder.

Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

There is no wealth but life.

When love and skill work together expect a miracle.

There are many religions, but there is only one morality.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

There are soldiers of the ploughshare as well as soldiers of the sword.