“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.”

“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.”

“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.”

“The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover”

“The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.”

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

“Reading is to the mind what exerise is to the body.”