It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man.

When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

As ages roll on there is doubtless a progression in human nature. The intellectual comes to rule the physical, and the moral claims to subordinate both. It is no longer strength of body that prevails, but strength of mind while the law of God proclaims itself superior to both.