Let our lives be pure as snow-fields, where our footsteps leave a mark, but not a stain.—Madame Swetchine.
There is no courage but in innocence, no constancy but in an honest cause.—Southern.
Inspiration.—Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?—George Eliot.
The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.—Ovid.
No man was ever great without divine inspiration.—Cicero.
A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.—Greville.
Intellect.—If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.—Franklin.
Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.—Samuel Smiles.
A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family.—Rev. Thomas Scott.
Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.—Colton.