The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.

Men. . . are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.