“Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!”

“I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.”

“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

“It is never too late to give up your prejudices”

“As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.”

“There is no beginning too small.”

“It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.”